Life Coaching Classroom with Michelle Shutter - Life Coaching for Women

There are questions, words, situations and experiences that land in the heart at different times in your life.  In this episode, I share a question that was asked of me recently.

It felt like a dagger to my heart after doing soooooo much thought work, inner work, self-growth and personal development.  

It required me to do more work on myself, listening to my heart, trusting it and developing my intuition deeper.  

When you are in ...

What does honoring you look like?  It can be different for each and every woman.  However, there are 3 fundamentals that come into play.

In this episode, part 2 of Honoring You, Michelle Shutter shares the 3 F’s of Honoring You.  You must come into alignment with your thoughts and feelings to create actions and results that serve you and your highest good.  

If you are experiencing negative emotion, it is just a sign that you are o...

In this episode, I share part of the January Unit Study Class, Honoring You. Fully honoring yourself takes practice and a decision to commit to you.  This is a 2 part podcast series.

Why exactly don’t we honor our self?  There’s many things that can get in the way of it.  This episode shares one of the reasons why.  It can be uneasy and scary to fully embody something new.  However, to fully honor yourself you must fully embrace an...

Perfectionism is such a thief!  It robs you of your true self by keeping you in a negative vibrational loop.  All the negative emotions that we don’t want to experience are fueled through perfectionism.

Perfectionism is a self-creating stress process.  It knocks our body out of homeostasis.  Many accept this stress status as a natural state…it isn’t.

Letting go of perfectionism is a perfect way to honor yourself.

In this episode, I...

We experience an abundance of thoughts each and every day…in the tens of thousands!  For the majority of people, we repeat the same thoughts day after day, week after week,  month after month and year after year.

To set an intention is to decide on purpose.  Where exactly then is your intentional focus?  

In this episode, learn the importance of creating an intentional focus, generally what we focus on, and how to fix it.

The found...

Change in 2023 is going to look different for each and every person.  Change is going to come through relationships…perhaps it’s a relationship with money, or maybe food, or work, or people.  Regardless, the year of change is here.

Even though change is going to look different for each person, the one thing that is consistent with everyone is that you must go through the ultimate breakup.  It is breaking up with the old self.

If we...

It’s getting to be the middle of January 2023 and oops!  What happened to the commitment and dedication to the goals we set at the beginning of the year?  Is it going to be another year of self-sabotage?

You are not alone and we have all been there!  We fall off the wagon….get back on the wagon…fall off the wagon….get back on the wagon…fall off the wagon…and sometimes we don’t make it back on.  

In this episode, learn 5 Reasons Why...

New year…new you and all the excitement in the air of beginning fresh.  Without a doubt, there’s going to be obstacles, challenges and failures along the way and throughout 2023.  

They exist so that we can get ultra clear on what we want success to be.  Yet, not many people want to talk about failure because it makes us feel less than…it stirs up uncomfortable emotions…the unworthiness and undeserving meters creep up. 

In this epi...

It’s getting to be that time where we want to give up on our goals for the year.  Life starts to get back into a routine and somehow our goals get ditched.  

Why?  Our commitment begins to waiver, our believeability level drops and we question our decisions.   The old habits hop back in the driver seat, the familiar emotion of disappointment rears its ugly head and old patterns loop in our mind.

In this episode, we share the Pivot ...

💖 61.  Resisting Change?   3 Ways to Get Ahead of Resistance

Without a doubt, 2023 is going to be a year of change.  It is going to require us to walk in uncharted territory and to get out of our comfort zone to try new things.

Guess who is going to want to show up in this walk?  That’s right, good ‘ole resistance.  Who invited resistance to 2023 anyway?

Our mind is going to want to keep us safe…that’s it’s job.  However, when you...

Goals have gotten a bad rap over time.  Why?  Because many times we set these big, audacious goals which leads to disappointment if we don’t achieve them.  Our thought then becomes we have failed because we couldn’t meet our goal.

Our body actually becomes addicted to disappointment and we repeat this pattern over and over again.

It is so important to connect to our desires and create goals from them.  When we don’t identify the de...

Exactly what have you done to love on the author of your story?  Our first thought is to beat our self up because we are not where we “think we should be”.  Where exactly should you be anyway?

With this thought, our focus becomes centered on lack.  The lack of not having what we are seeking.  The lack of our desire.  When we focus on lack or scarcity, we are aligning with a lower vibrational energy.  How can you bring forward what ...

Who exactly is the main character of your story?  The first guess would be me!  I am the main character of the story.

However, that’s not exactly true.  If we were truly the main character, we would be experiencing ultimate fulfillment in all areas of our life.  But that’s not the case for the majority of people.

The main character likes to consume the space between the story you are living and the unlived story that you would love...

Your published story is the story for all to see.  It is defined by our roles that we have some how, over time, taken on the identity of.

When you review your story, what kind of rating do you give it?  On a scale of 1-10, how happy are you with that rating?

If it’s not near 10, it means that excuses, fears, self-doubts, bogus stories have seeped in.  The published story is no longer aligned with your true story…the story you were ...

Many times we think punishment comes from a parent, teacher, coach etc.  But what if we are the punisher in our story?

It seems so crazy to think that we would self-punish.  Why?  

Our identity of being a hardaholic reigns true.  Who would we be if we didn’t hustle, push, work harder and do more at the expense of overwhelming our self?  Perhaps it’s easier to punish our self than to feel the guilt that may surface because we let so...

Your story definitely comes with a main character.  Generally, most people think that you are the main character in the story.  Perhaps.  Or maybe not.

Could you entertain the idea that you are NOT the main character in the story and that there is a main character that likes to steal the show?

You may not even be aware of the main character’s role in the story.  It can be so very subtle, yet it can prevent you from living your true...

We all have a story…actually, we all have stories.  Yes. Plural.  Stories.

We write these stories based on past experiences and situations.  Many of the stories were created in our youth.  When we are little, we don’t have enough life experiences and wisdom to analyze the situation as an adult.  Thus, we pick up the pencil and begin to write our story.

These stories can last years and decades.  As an adult, when we want to do somet...

Locusts on the menu?  Doesn’t sound very appealing to me.  Good thing we are only using the analogy of eating locusts in this week’s episode on the Life Coaching Classroom podcast.

How can you sweeten the taste of locusts?  With honey of course!  Now none of this makes sense.  I get it.  It was a message shared in church today and I felt compelled to share it with you.

I even take it one step farther.  Can you be the honey?

Would y...

Everyone has procrastinated at some time or another in their life.  We’re all human right?  Yet, what if we could create productivity in the procrastination?  Imagine the difference it would make in our lives!

In this episode, we explore what happens in procrastination, why we avoid certain tasks and how to step through it so that we become more productive.

We can actually use procrastination to our advantage!  

Procrastination is ...